Ford

Phyllis J. Smith Ford, 59, of Hilliards, Venango Township, died early Thursday evening at Butler Memorial Hospital following a brief illness.

Born in Grove City on Nov. 22, 1946, she was the daughter of Dorothy Shaffer Smith, and the late John A. Smith, who died March 2, 1981.

She was a 1964 graduate of Moniteau High School.

She was employed at Isaly's at Slippery Rock, and later at Kennametal of Slippery Rock for a number of years.

Mrs. Ford was a member of the St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church at Murrinsville, the Altar Rosary Society, and taught Sunday school for years.

She was an avid hunter and outdoors enthusiast, as well as loving to cook and can garden products from her home garden.

Surviving, in addition to her mother of Hilliards, are her husband, Harry Michael Ford whom she married June 15, 1985; a son, Michael John Ford, a student at Youngstown State University; a sister, Judy Smith Miller of Daytona Beach, Fla.; four sisters-in-law, Paulette Hannah, Shirley Wolff, Mary Beth Ford and Arlene Sieg, all of Economy; two brothers-in-law, Arthur and Charles Ford, also of Economy, and a number of nieces, nephews and cousins.

<B>FORD</B> — Friends of Phyllis J. Smith Ford, who died Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at <B>H. Jack Buzard Funeral Home</B>, Main Street, Route 38, Eau Claire.A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church, Murrinsville, with Rev. Richard Thompson, church pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Eau Claire Cemetery.